The Data Fragmentation Tax
Security debt is different from technical debt. With technical debt, you can patch it gradually-refactor a module here, upgrade a library there. But with security debt, you can’t patch your way out of a breach. One vulnerability, one misconfig, one unpatched server, and your entire organization is at risk.
The data is stark:
Veracode’s 2024 State of Software Security report found that 71% of organisations carry security debt, with 46% carrying critical-severity flaws unfixed for more than one year. IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach report puts the global average breach cost at $4.88M. Security debt is rarely theoretical; it is deferred risk accumulating in production systems.
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